PROJECTS

China is a key global actor and a leading economic and technological power. China’s increasing relevance in the geopolitical system, its various specificities, complexities and goals as well as its rapid evolution and new policy directions pose challenge to the EU’s capacity to better understand contemporary China.

Tegen 2030 zullen 4,5 miljoen werkende Belgen een upgrade van hun competenties nodig hebben. Er is dus nood aan een echte permanente leercultuur en een grootschalig ‘skills-offensief’. Speciale aandacht voor de vaardigheden van de 21ste eeuw zijn daarbij noodzakelijk. Ze moeten de werknemer van de toekomst wendbaar en weerbaar maken.

We aim to help the creation of artificial intelligence that improves individual and collective wellbeing without being a threat. Our mission is to provide peace of mind in Artificial Intelligence and guarantee a safe, fair artificial intelligence that ensures respect for human autonomy.

Mentor+ is focused on designing an intervention of non-formal education, offering the mentoring methodology to engage, connect and empower young people in conflict with the law. The main idea is to use law-abiding adults to support juveniles in the process of developing positive attitudes and behaviours. Mentor+ is also focused on digitalisation.

The vision of the NOTIONES network is to build and maintain a pan-European ecosystem of security and intelligence practitioners in order to monitor technologic opportunities and advancements, and best practices and define and refine requirements and standardisation needs.

ORIENT8 is a smart social mentoring program supported by smart digital tools and tailored activities. It smartly pairs newly arrived third-country nationals (newcomers) with the volunteer members of the local community in order to help them overcome daily difficulties at the early stage of their integration process.

Breaking the ISIS Brand Project makes in-depth video interviews with ISIS and al Shabaab returnees, defectors and prisoners, which are used to create counter-narrative materials with violent extremist and terrorist insiders denouncing the group as un-Islamic, corrupt and ruthless.

All-in-one 4 HER is a project funded by European Social Fund and the Flemish government. It aims to develop a fast-track integration model for Highly Educated Refugees into the Flemish labour market.

Super-mentor is an ESF and Flemish Government funded project which aims to develop an online training (MOOC) for mentors who support jobseekers with migrant background to find a job in Flanders.